BIB_ID
269930
Accession number
MA 6426.9
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
1938 Mar. 22.
Credit line
Purchased on the John F. Fleming Fund, 2007.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 27.9 cm.
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and telegrams primarily between John Steinbeck and Pare Lorentz.
The intended donation probably consists of the $25 promised by the Des Moines Register (See MA 6426.2b).
The intended donation probably consists of the $25 promised by the Des Moines Register (See MA 6426.2b).
Summary
Concerning Lorentz's role in selling his article ["Starvation Under The Orange Trees,"] the machinations of the Associated Farmers [of California], and Steinbeck's decision to donate payment for this article to the Simon Lubin Society. Reporting that his series of articles published in the San Francisco News as "The Harvest Gypsies," resulted in improvements in the conditions of migrant workers; reporting that he is sometimes "oppressed by a really frightening sense of weariness." Informing Lorentz that the dramatic version of "Of Mice and Men" has "run a lot longer than [he] ever thought it would."
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